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Assegai

by Wilbur Smith · 2009

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By 1913, Leon Courtney has become a big game hunter in British East Africa. One of his clients is a German industrialist and military weapons manufacturer. From Von Meerbach's mistress, Leon learns about a conspiracy that would unite part of the Kaiser's army with the survivors of the Boer War against British forces in Africa.

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East AfricaEast AfricaMore like thisLess of thisAfricaAfricaMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 471 pages

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